You’re fired!:bad-news words for when you lose your job

→You’ve been late every day for the last two weeks, and you haven’t finished one project.You’re fired!

Holy smokes!:Wow!

→Holy smokes, my neighbor just won a thousand dollars!

old flame:a former boyfriend or girlfriend

→Susan was not happy when her boyfriend kept talking about hisold flame.

out of the frying pan and into the fire:going from a bad situation to a worse one

→She thought it was a bad day when the bus splashed her new skirt, but it wasout of the frying pan and into the firewhen she spilled hot coffee and burned herself.

fire off:write something quickly and send it off immediately

→When she read the article in the newspaper about the animal shelter, she wanted tofire off an e-mail to her friends to ask them to help.